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I have never heard of a Boston Ice Tea. From Difford's Guide: Boston Tea Party: (served in Collins Glass) 1/2 oz Ketel One Vodka 1/2 oz Dewars 12 year old scotch 1/2 oz Tripple Sec 1/2 oz Navy rum 1/2 oz Rutte Dry Gin 1/2 oz Patron Reposado 1/2 oz Noilly Prat Extra Dry 1/2 oz freshly squeezed orange juice 1 oz freshly squeezed lime juice 1/2 oz Sugar syrup top off with Coke (or Pepsi) Add orange slice to garnish. Obviously you can substitute brands as necessary.

Long Island Ice Tea Boston Tea Party Lemon Drop Martini Cosmopolitan John Colins Tanqueray and (soda, tonic, cranberry, etc..) Slow Comfortable Southern Screw (screwdriver with a shot of Southern Comfort) Bacardi 8 or Pyrit on the rocks (single large ice cube is better) As for Micheline - Does she like Pinot Grigio? My wife normally drinks that on cruises.

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Weather will be warmer in July. Also the animals should be more active and the salmon run in full swing. All things being equal, I would choose July over May for Alaska.

LoL -- Yeah - we had the advantage of being there two whole weeks.

I always ask for ice with my fresh squeezed OJ.

Anything over and above the number of vouchers your have buy individually. For beer and soda, buy those instead of using vouchers. Use vouches for the more expensive drinks. Do the math, if you will drink five drinks or more per day above your limit of four, e.g. nine drinks or more per day on average, then the deluxe beverage package may be the way to go.

As Diamond + we each get five vouchers a day -- there was only one day that we came close, used 9 of the 10, to using them all. The rest of the time it was normally two glasses of wine for me with dinner, one glass for my wife, two drinks for me at the Schooner bar and one for my wife. The one day we came close I had two glasses of wine and she had one with lunch. Of course I often supplemented my drink vouchers with pre-dinner drinks and if we finished dinner in time, at least one after dinner drink in the Suite Lounge.

I recall post previously where individuals stated they were unable to access Cruise Critic with the basic internet. I've never had basic, always premium, so I cannot say from personal experience. I believe I have also read that web browsing is very slow on basic but maybe someone with direct experience can comment.

In no particular order: Zacapa Old Fashioned Long Island Ice Tea Rum Old Fashioned Old Fashioned Ketel One and diet tonic Tanqueray 10 and diet tonic French 75 Lemon Drop Martini

Was it by any chance Thomas who also works at the bar in the Ocean View Cafe on Silhouette? That's where I got this hand made sangria.

I like getting the premium beverage package being included with my suite on Celebrity. This frees me from having to go to the Retreat lounge whenever i would like an adult beverage. Our favorite place for relaxation on Solstice class is the Ensemble Lounge, right outside the Retreat lounge and while it is easy to get up and go into the lounge for a drink, it's easier just to order one at the bar in the Ensemble Lounge. I am also very fond of Bailey's and coffee at Cafe al Bacio.

American Dollars are accepted everywhere.

"This is the way"

No they cannot.

We were able to watch the safety video on-line the morning of our cruise. When we boarded Quantum in August everyone was being directed to their muster stations as they came aboard. Was asked if we had watched the video at the muster station, they gave us a short speach about in the event of an emergency that we were to come right there and described the emergency signal (7 short followed by one long). Less than 2 minutes from walking up to the muster station to walking away. There were two couples in front of us. You can find deck plans with muster station locations for most of the ships online. Google is your friend.

Interesting -- on Quantum for the first leg of the B2Bwe did not have to give it but once after breakfast on Day 3. Never had to give it on the second leg as we were in the same room. Then again, we ate all our meals there except for twice on both cruises.

We only managed to get phone calls to work by having WiFi calling enabled on our iPhones.

Not necessarily. You can watch the safetry Video prior to boarding, the morning of the cruise in our hotel is when we normally do it. You can also watch it on your stateroom TV after boarding. Dining reservations can be made for the main dining room can be made prior to boarding via the internet or the app. Specialty dining reservations can be made onboard by going to any specialty restaurant and doing the reservations in person. My advise has always been to use your phone right up to sail away and then if you feel it necessary, turn it off and put it in the safe. Otherwise, put it in airplane mode, connect to the ship's WiFi and use the app. There is no charge for using the app only.

I have used What's App multiple times for WiFi calling when sailing on Celebrity. Did your mom have her phone set up for WiFi calling and tested before she embarked? Celebrity has two levels of WiFi and there have been many reports of WiFi calling not working with the basic WiFi package but my experience has been with the Premium WiFi. The Basic is what is included with non-suite bookings, unless you upgrade, The Premium comes included with Suite / Retreat bookings. It could be that she has the basic package and not the Premium and that may be the issue. I recommend she go to iLounge on Deck 4 and ask for help.

Some people are reporting that they are not able to use their drink vouchers on debarkation morning. IT seems, from my reading across multiple threads, that it varies from ship to ship.

I went to Hooter's with friends last Friday for dinner after attending 'The Nation's Gun Show' and was told they were out of draft beer. Additionally they were out of almost any beer that was not some form of mass produced 'lite' beer. The cause of there being no draft beer or fountain drinks - a world wide shortage in co2. Hopefully that is not the case here but for it to affect every bar, something is suspicious. My remedy however was to order a long island ice tea instead of some watered down beer.

As @Biker19 said, Royal changed check in from 90 days to 45 days post COVID., The check in date shown on the app//Web site are the most accurate.

If you want NCL protocols, go sail on NCL.

This is why we can't have nice things!